From A. C. Ramsay 26 August 1862
London
26 Augt 1862
My dear Sir
By this post I send a paper1 which I hope you may find time to read, for you are one of the few whose opinion I specially care about on such a subject.
When I read it Falconer2 made a 40 minutes onslaught on it, & I accidentaly heard (what did not surprise) me that the Council had some difficulty about passing it at all.3
Falconer was of opinion that had I known the Himalayah I would not have propounded such a theory. Hooker, however, who was not present, writes me that “the great standing puzzle of the Himalayah, its wanting lakes, is explicable on your hypothesis & on no other that I ever heard propounded”.—4 He then shows cause on my hypothesis for their absence on the South & the immense number of them in Cashmire & Thibet where the valleys are wide & of gentle slope.
Ever sincerely | Andw C Ramsay
Footnotes
Summary
Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3701
- From
- Andrew Crombie Ramsay
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 9
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3701,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3701.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
